This short film was made in 2000 by Tandem director Daniel Greaves. Hand-drawn animation was scanned and coloured using Toonz software. Mr. Shortfuse later appeared as a character in Daniel Greaves’ BAFTA-nominated shortfilm ‘Little Things’ released in 2004.

A rabbit unwittingly duplicates itself through a number of invisible trapdoors.

Technique:
Daniel Greaves animated the whole film as a single character hopping around the screen, the animation was then artworked onto cell using a waterbased ink. The very simple action becomes a complex kaleidoscope pattern, which is the result of complicated repegging and repositioning of each of the original drawings traced off many times for each frame as the rabbits multiply.